The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., September 10, 1910, YOUNG FOLKS' SPECIAL., Page 627, Image 7

About The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920

Image provided by: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

                
girls, that this Is your part and you
must start the interest for musis In
th<* home, and ha/ore you realize it
all the rest will he interested and
helping with you. Rut you must
never get discouraged and give up.
Perhaps you have heard some of
your friends play difficult pieces and
said. "I can never do that, no matter
how hard I work.” Rut if you are
willing to work and wait and prac
tice, you will very probably be able
to do better than you ever imagined
you could. Remember, "where there's
a will, there's always a way.
I know a girl who always wanted
to play Gustav Range's "Flower
Song." She worked and worked un
til she had mastered the tuneful lit
tle piece, and then she said, "If I can
do that so easily, I can learn Clsopln's
famous 'Nocturne In E-flat.' " So she
learned the Chopin Nocturne, and
then the beautiful "Moonlight So
natn." and still other difficult pieces
and to-day she is a fine pianist.
Now. dear girls, you have just as
much ability ns this girl had and juat
as much determination to do a thing,
so do not let anything he bo serious
an obstacle that you can not over
oonin It.
Mnke up your mind to know
music; then work, work to mnke
the money to take lessons, and work
at your tnsk of learning to play, and
succ«kh is assured.
A FARMKRN’ Sl'I'PKH.
A Charming Kntrrtnlnmcat Wliich
•May lie (liven la a Country Home.
Vary attractive Is the idea of a
"farmer’s supper,” and It Is pret
tiest on the lawn. It may be given
by those who have ample grounds,
with conveniences for entertaining
large companies, ar picnic fashion, by
a company of young people, each
person bringing contributions for the
table. Or It can be arranged for In
a hall.
The supper purposes to call togeth
er. In rustic costume, the various
characters belonging to farm life.
The farmer and farmer's wife, with
their sons aud daughters, receive the
company and give a supper, to which
all are Invited dairymen and dairy
maids, haymakers, men who swing
the ary the, and maids who spread
•ha fallen grass, boys who tend the
sheep, and little "Bo-peeps,” who
lose theirs, plow boys wearing gloves
and whip*, gardeners nnd flower
girls, hunters and fisher lads, market
girls with baskets of eggs or fruits
or vegetables all cams In costume
suited to their station nnd work The
village doctor, deacon and squire may
also be added to the list, with the
singer of local songs
The costumes may well be copied
from English or Continental farm
Ilfs, or perhaps the American type of
several generations ago, since the
farmer and his family of to-day wear
little or nothing to mark, by their
dress the nature of their life nnd
work.
Tables spread upon the lawn
should be furnished wholly with the
fruits of the farm and dairy. The
farmer offers to hls guests bread
from his fieldh of corn, rye and
wheat; butter, cheese, milk, cream
and curds from bis dairy; berries and
fruits from his fields and orchards;
flowers ami fresh vegetables from
his gardens; game and fish captured,
perhaps, from his woodlands and
meadow brooks; poultry and meat
fed by sweet pasturage and gralas,
and sugar from his own maple orch
ard or cane field.
Gurnee on the lawn are indulged
In, such as croquet, ball, foot and
Jumping races and swinging.
\ salad garden Is u charming fea
1 ur* Tubs or long boxes must be
filled with saml, and paper tulips that
nre \ory vastly made can be stood
THE BOY: A POTENTIALITY
J HAVE a profound 'respect for boys. Grimy, ragged,
tousled boys in the street often attract me strangely.
A boy is a man in the cocoon—you do not know what it is
going to become—his life is big with many possibilities. He
may make or unmake kings, change boundary-lines between
States, write books that will mold characters, or invent ma
chines that will revolutionize the commerce of the world.
Wouldn t you like to turn Time backward, and see Abra
ham Lincoln at twelve, when he had never worn a pair of
boots ? The lank, lean, yellow, hungry boy—hungry for
love, hungry for learning, tramping off through the woods
for twenty miles to borrow a book, and spelling it out,
crouched before the Plare of the hnrnina Inf
Then there was that Corsican boy, one of a goodly brood,
who weighed only fifty pounds when ten years old; who was
thin and pale and perverse, and had tantrums, and had to
be sent supperless to bed, or locked in a dark closet because
he wouldn't “mind”! Who would have thought that he would
have mastered every phase of warfare at twenty-six; and
when told that the exchequer of France was in dire confus
ion, would say, “The finances? I will arrange them!”
Yesterday I rode horseback past a field where a boy
was plowing. The lad’s hair stuck out through his hat; his
form was bony and awkward; one suspender held his trou
sers in place; his bare legs and arms were brown and sun
burned and brier-scarred. He swung his horses around as
i passea oy, ana jrom unaer me flapping ortm of fits Hat
he cast a quick glance out of dark, half-bashful eyes and
modestly returned my salute. His back turned, I took off
my hat and sent a God-bless-you down the furrow after him.
Who knows?—I may go to that boy to borrow money
yet, or to hear him preach, or to. beg him to defend me in a
lawsuit; or he may stand with pulse unhastened, bare of arm,
in white apron, ready to do his duty, while the cone is placed
over my face, and Night and Death come creeping into my
veins.
Be patient with with the boys—you are dealing with soul
stuff.—Elbert Hubbard.
Up ill long rows. The gardener is
also the fortune teller, and with a
long fishing pole the visitor points
out which tulip in the garden she
would like to buy. The gardener
gets the tulip for her. Hidden in
the heart of the flower is a little
verse which tells the fair lady her
fortune.
Others still test apple charms, first
peeling the apple, then winding the
peel about the head three times, Ihe
while “wishing a wish,” and throw
ing the peel backward over the left
shoulder. The Initial letter it forms
begins the name (rf the future sweet
heart. Then the apple must be eaten
and the seeds stuck upon the palm of
the hand. These are named for as
many different friends, then tossed
over the left shoulder, the one re
maining being the truest friend.
Choruses, songs and recitations of
the pastoral type with tableaux and
pantomines representing scenes in
farm life, may well be offered as part
of the entertainment.
MISS MAGGIE McMANAWAY.
A GIKL*' TOMATO CLUB.
Our friend, Mr. W. H. Dorin, writes
us ns follows in regard to the Girls*
Demonstration Work in Halifax
County. Virginia:
“This work is in the experimental
stage yet, and it seemed best to con
flue our efforts to eertaln sections
only, for this summer. The counties
of Nottoway and Halifax were select
ed and an agent put in the field. Miss
KUa Agnew, of Hurkeville, Va., is in
charge. The plan of organization is
simple. Girls in different districts of
the county are organized with a
chairman, selected from their num
ber. Their chairman will serve as
Vice President when county organi
zation is effected.
“For this summer our clubs are
limited in scope, providing only for
raising of tomatoes and cucumbers
and canning and pickling fruit raised.
It was thought we might possibly se
cure 100 girls In the two counties.
No more were desired because the
work was started so late it would be
difficult to secure tomato plants. We
have now about 200 girls and have
had to stop applications.
“The girls are, if there is time, ex
pected to plant the seeds for toma
toes, raise plants, and transplan
them, taking entire care of plants
till fruit is ripe. Then the Depart
ment of Agriculture will send a can
ning outfit into the district and show
girls how to can properly. After this
is done a market is found for the
canned goods.
“The only conditions of member
ship are that after the first hard work
is done, the girl herself must do the
rest under directions, and she must
have all the proceeds to do with as
she pleases.
“Another year the work will in
clude poultry, flower, vegetable and
other clubs- anything that will be ol
interest to women aid girls.”
This work looks promising to us
and we hope our progressive farm
girls will take hold of it, and that it
will he extended to all parts of the
South. There is no reason why the
girls’ clubs should not do as much
for them as the corn clubs have done
to inspire the boys.
CHILDREN’S INDUSTRIAL CON
GRESS.
The men and women of Ansor
County, N. C., are thoroughly anc
actively alive upon all lines whict
have to do with rural betterment
The women of this county establish
ed the first permanent “Woman’!
Farmer Institute” organization in tin
South and for four years this bodj
of women has demonstrated wha
may he accomplished by united effor
along civic lines. This Children'!
Congress plan is one of the fruits o
this organized movement. The plai
is as unique and attractive as it h
simple. Here are some extracts fron
a letter sent to the teachers by tin
leader of the movement, Mrs. Eugem
Little:
“Dear Teacher: I want to help yoi
interest the children of your schoc
in the beautifying of your bulletin
--- ■ - - r
and grounds. One of our plans is to
have a monthly meeting which we
shall call the ‘Children’s Industrial
Congress.’ This congress is to meet
on the same days the teachers meet
in Wadesboro. Each school is enti
tled to send two representatives to
the Congress—one girl and one boy
—to be selected by vote, after being
nominated in open school. We will
provide a meeting place in the large
brick building near the graded school
for the congress. No one is eligible to
be elected unless m, pupil in your
school. Lunch will be furnished the
children by the ladies and business
men of Wadesboro. And all teach
ers who attend the monthly meeting
are invited to take lunch with the
children.”
Don’t you believe the children will
enjoy this, and don’t you think it will
help the schools? Then why not or
ganize some such club in your school?
Rolled Apple Dumplings.
Make a rich baking powder biscuit
dough, roll out in a thin sheet, cover
thickly with chopped apples, roll up
compactly, then cut into slices about
two inches thick. Place in well
greased baking pan, not too close to
gether, and pour over the following:
Mix 1 tablespoonful of flour with
1 cupful of sugar, add 1 cupful of
boiling water, stirring till it boils
and thickens smoothly. Flavor with
nutmeg or cinnamon. Bake and serve
with cream and sugar.—Rural New
Yorker.
Suited Norah.
Norah had been guilty of what was
considered an indiscretion, so the
mistress of the house called her to
“step the carpet.” “If such a thing
1 occurs again, Norah,” said the mia
! tress, "I shall hav§ to get another
servant!”
And Norah said: “I wish yer
' would—there’s easily enough work
■ for two of us!”—New Zealand Free
1 Lance.
Soak brooms every week in hot
salt water, shake and hang up, and
they will last longer.—Miss Maggie
McManaway.
$17.50
. i Steel Range
Six eight-inch lids.
Fifteen gallon reservoir.
Top warming closet.
Asbestos lined flues.
With care will last a life
i time. Shipped from factory
to you.
, Send $17.50.
s
’ Frank £. Smith Co.
Meridian, Miss.
l __I__